Chapter 517: Contact (Part II)

The group needs to change office buildings; this has already become an urgent matter.

Because of the previous group restructuring, Cybertron Technology recruited a large number of new employees in a very short period of time.

Today, the total number of employees in the entire company has exceeded 2,700, and the number is still growing steadily.

The original office location is already struggling to accommodate so many employees working at the same time.

Therefore, Sun Cheng and the others must decide on a solution as soon as possible.

Either rent another office building nearby to let the four different subsidiaries under the group work separately, or choose a new office building that is larger than the current one.

As for the acquisition of Xinhai Technology, that is already a done deal.

As more and more hard drives ordered by Cybertron Cloud Drive members have arrived, various large-capacity portable hard drives printed with the "Cybertron" logo have begun to stir up a monstrous wave in the portable hard drive market, relying on the two major advantages of "low price" and "excellent performance."

Creating a sales volume of over one million units in just over a month is definitely a great victory for the storage hardware consumer market, which is very brand-conscious.

Now, not only have many domestic storage equipment manufacturers noticed the newly established Cybertron Storage Technology Co., Ltd., but they have also sent some representatives to contact Cybertron Storage regarding patent usage for portable hard drives and other possible collaborations.

Several well-known international storage giants, such as Western Digital, Micron Technology, etc., although they do not show any reaction for the time being.

But if you pay attention to recent technology news, it is not difficult to perceive some changes in the industry.

The world-renowned lithography machine giant ASML is currently under investigation by the European Union, with some suspecting it of being involved in selling 14nm-class lithography machines to countries under the Bawa Agreement export controls.

The so-called Bawa Agreement refers to the two major Western export control organizations: the Paris Coordinating Committee and the Wassenaar Arrangement.

The former was established during the Cold War, aiming to control the export of various advanced weapons, technologies, and equipment from developed European and American countries to red countries led by the Soviet Union; the latter was established in the mid-to-late 1990s, and after the Soviet Union's national strength declined, it was a brand-new export control organization established by the NATO group led by the United States to suppress the rise of emerging military, political, and economic powers like Xia Country.

The Bawa Agreement controls the export of high-tech, advanced weapons, and equipment, and semiconductor-related technologies and equipment are all within the scope of the Bawa Agreement's control and have always been prohibited from being exported to Xia Country.

Domestically, we have only just mastered the manufacturing technology for 32nm DUV Deep Ultraviolet Lithography Machines, so although the world-renowned lithography machine giant ASML is said to have mastered the production technology for 5-7nm class EUV Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machines, it only sells 32nm-class lithography machines and 28nm-class DUV Deep Ultraviolet Lithography Machines to Xia Country.

If Xia Country wants to import more advanced 22nm EUV Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machines from ASML, it requires spending a large amount of foreign exchange and political resources.

As for more advanced ones, one shouldn't even think about it, unless one day Xia Country can produce equipment of the same grade, only then will the other party sell to Xia for the purpose of suppressing Xia Country's enterprises.

And the portable hard drives that Cybertron Storage is selling on a large scale to the market use the mature 14nm-class process, which inevitably requires the use of lithography machines.

Therefore, the European Union launching an investigation into ASML is clearly because someone sent the finished Cybertron hard drives to the two major control organizations.

Consequently, some people began to suspect ASML of selling high-precision lithography machines to controlled countries.

Sun Cheng is not concerned about the bickering over in Europe and America, nor is he prepared to pay attention to it.

Cybertron Group was only established recently; at least for the next three years, there is no time or energy to consider the necessity of exporting products abroad.

Moreover, even if he were to be blocked in the future, he wouldn't care; as the world's second-largest economy, the personal storage hard drive consumer market within Xia Country alone is nearly 20 billion US dollars.

Adding in the growth of emerging industries such as enterprise-level storage, mobile storage, and cloud computing, the domestic demand for storage products will exceed 100 billion US dollars in at most two or three years.

In such a huge market, even if Cybertron Group only takes half, it can make a fortune.

Because of this, it is time for Cybertron Storage Technology Co., Ltd. to consider having its own production factory.

As more and more eyes are focused on him, Sun Cheng cannot keep using the P·C·F organization he created virtually to block all the attention for him.

If he frequently enters and exits Huwangling, there is a high probability of exposing Base No. 1, which currently has no defensive capabilities.

Therefore, acquiring the domestic veteran storage enterprise Xinhai Technology to make up for the lack of Cybertron Storage's own factory and production equipment has become an urgent matter.

It just so happens that during this period, some people in the investment circle have also started to set their sights on Cybertron Group and have been trying to buy shares in Cybertron.

Sun Cheng is a person with an extremely strong desire for control; he has already consolidated his own forces in the Transformers universe, so naturally, he is not short of money, and thus he has no intention of releasing shares to the outside world.

Therefore, to avoid people staring at him to death.

Plus, P·C·F also needs to gradually move into the open, so Sun Cheng can just use some channels to inject more capital into Cybertron Group.

Reducing his visible shareholding can reduce outside attention on him.

By transferring more shares to the holding funds or companies under the P·C·F organization he virtually created, let those who are watching him stare at this virtually created organization for a while and play a game of wits.

The meeting discussion finally yielded a result; after learning from Sun Cheng that there would soon be a new capital injection of no less than 500 million US dollars, renting a larger new office building nearby to arrange for the group's several subsidiaries to work together became the consensus of the attendees.

This can save a lot of transportation and internal communication expenses, and at the same time, it can better concentrate the group's internal resources.

As for the acquisition of Xinhai Technology, there is also a preliminary plan.

The acquisition will be led by the group's new CEO, Wang Lu, with several senior executives from Cybertron Storage accompanying him.

The reason why he was asked to be in charge again is mainly because Sun Cheng feels that he just completed the merger of Panda Weiyun not long ago, so he can be considered experienced.

Compared to him, the management of Cybertron Storage Technology Co., Ltd. are mostly newly recruited professional managers; although some key personnel in the technical and R&D departments are industry elites poached from other storage companies at high salaries, they are all technical elites and have no experience in acquisitions.

So for this matter, Wang Lu can only be troubled to lead the team and take charge.

A meeting lasted for an entire morning, and after the meeting ended, Sun Cheng had just returned to his office.

Before he even had time to sit down, his new Assistant, Lin Bing, knocked on the office door.

"Come in!"

"Excuse me, President Sun. Just now, during your meeting, there were several visitors from the National Control Bureau who hoped to have a chat with you!"

In an instant, Sun Cheng, who had been feeling a bit tired after several hours of boring meetings, couldn't help but feel refreshed.

PS:

It is said that if the characters "China" appear in a chapter, the probability of being audited will greatly increase.

In order not to be on pins and needles, not knowing which chapter will be banned, starting from this chapter, the country is renamed "Xia Country."